The Story Of Film - An Odyssey

This utterly fascinating documentary, written and directed by award-winning filmmaker Mark Cousins, is indeed an odyssey!

Taking almost six years to complete and spanning twelve decades, this 5-disc DVD set will tell you everything about the history of film, and then some. With over 1,000 movie clips, 15 hours of interview footage and expert commentaries by Cousins himself, this set is a cornucopia for every movie buff!

Selected interviews with Claudia Cardinale, Liv Ullman, Baz Luhrmann, Paul Schrader and Bernardo Bertolucci (to name but a few) provide a first-hand insight, while Cousins left no stone unturned to inform the viewer about the very beginnings of film (Edison and Mélies) and the first Nickeodeons, and also discusses the silent classics by directors like Murnau, D.W. Griffith, Sjoström and Lang (to name but a few). We then find out how Expressionist cinema continues to influence modern directors to this day, while the cinema of neo-realism, surrealism and gritty realism all are dissected, too. Particularly interesting is what went on in film studios behind the Iron Curtain and the Soviet Union, and how censorship under communist regime and Nazi regime affected creativity and freedom of expression of various filmmakers.

Every continent gets a mention and we learn about movies and gain insider knowledge usually reserved only for film historians. Definitely worth the labour that went into this almost too good to be true epic. Mr. Cousins, I salute you!

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